Finished News Story

A while ago our team Talia, Ashley, Meleana and I finished our profile story project on Mrs. Julia Sanderl.  We decided to do our project on Mrs. Sanderl because Talia and I really love her class because its really fun and interesting and Meleana and Ashley said that it also sounded fun to do. Some people that contributed to our story is Gabriela Bryan, Michael Amoyo and of course Mrs. Sanderl.

Our final project turned out really great! We got voted as the top three stories in our class and got submitted to Hiki No. Even though our story didn't go on air I really think we did pretty good there wasn't any big mistakes just a few minor ones. After I saw the story that my team and I created I was really impressed that 2 seventh graders and 2 sixth graders had created such an awesome video. I think that we did awesome because we all worked together and communicated very well. I am very happy with the finished cut.

I agree with the results my classmates put for the story my team and I made. The story wasn't perfect but it was pretty good. I think that the critiques were very helpful for our story. All of the critiques let the team know some improvements we could've made. This was a really fun experience to start off the year and to learn how to work as a team with some new people.

My Visual Poem

 Hi everyone! Recently our class just finished our Visual Poem project and the purpose of it was to write a poem about us that expresses us and then film and take pics if it. My poem is about music and my love for it. The visuals that I used for this is myself playing the piano and pictures of my sheet music that I use.  The visuals relate to what Im saying when I recite my poem because I talk about music and hands touching the keyboard and thats what you see.

I guess I like my project but I used my moms camera to film all the b-roll and there is no way to focus it so my b-roll is pretty blurry. Also I kinda rushed on this project so Im not that happy about it. Next time I'll check out one of Mr. Sanderls cameras so I have better quality imagery and be aware of how much time I have to finish this project. Overall I guess Im pretty satisfied waith the result of my project.

All though the b-roll wasn't that good I still tried to make it look interesting by putting lots of different and cool effects. I used the crop tool, Ken Burnz effect, transformation tool, text layovers, and color correct which helped with the problem a bit. The Ken Burnz effect made the pictures that I used in my project more interesting to look at because it would pan across the image and zoom in and out of it. The transformation and crop tool made the image either just show a certain part of it or transform it into a different way to look at that pic or video. The color correction made the imagery more eye popping.

Real World Report

India may achieve its goal of sending a spacecraft into Mars which was built with homegrown technology for what they say " a remarkably low price of $75 million." They call it the Mars Orbiter Mission aka "MOM". India plans on joining the US, European Space Agency and the former Soviet Union in the elite club of Martian explorers .The MOM takes position on Wednesday as planned.

They say the next couple hours will be crucial as the Indian Space and Research Organisation sends a bunch of commands to position the spacecraft in its specific orbit around Mars. Reaching Mars orbit would be a huge accomplishment for India's Space program, showing the world India is capable of complex missions and also be a launching pd for commercial purposes, navigational and research satellites.

India did complete this mission of going to Mars (the red planet).With the sucess of MOM, India is ow the very first country to go to Mars in the very first try. The Eurepean, American, and Russian probes have managed to land or orbit on the planet, but after several attemts. The first Chinese mission to Mars failed, called the Yinghou-1, in 2011. In 1998 the Japenese mission ran out of fuel and is now lost.

I think this issue is a good thing because living in america (Hawaii) is a paradise for our family and I heard that India is a more of a poor country than the US. Since they accomplished this mission they probably made some money and the country is now a little more noticible becasue people are reralizing that India is a really smart country and shouldnt be ignored. We should care because maybe India can join with our country for future missions and purposes and we couild become a smarter country. Also now part of the world is a little more succesful so its good that the world s becoming a better and smarter place.

Lessons Learned

• Describe: most interesting part of your project
• Explain: biggest roadblock your team handled
• Discuss: most valuable part of filmmaking process
• Upload: 1-2 original images to add visual interest

Hi guys I just wanted to share about whats kind of happening currently with my team Ashley Meleana and Talia. Right now we are working on getting all of our interviews transcribed on a different document that we made in google drive. I know we were supposed to transcribe it on the writing tools document that Mr. Sanderl shared with us but we wanted to make sure we had a copy of it and on the document it just looked more clearer and organized to us so when were done transcribing it on the document we'll copy and paste it into the Writing tools document. The most interesting thing so far on this Hiki No project is probably what happens in the interviews when the camera is on and when we sometimes goof off. This is actually pretty interesting because we were filming a 6th grader and that student was really fun to work with and funny. Also when Talia and I got to be excused from 3rd period to film some b-roll off some really funny "cute" 8th grade boys.

Our team is doing pretty good but one of the biggest problems that we've ran into is getting all 3 interviews transcribed. We decided to make our own document because we wanted too organize it a different way and make sure we had a copy of  I guess. At the end when we had to move into the writing tools document that Mr. Sanderl gave us the font and size that we used was wrong so it ended up screwing up the whole document. At the end we got it back to normal with Mr. Sanderl's help and we also got a 4/4 (an A).

In my opinion the most valuable part of filmmaking progress is staying calm and not overreacting about not finishing while staying aware you have a due date and you need to get it finished. If you think about it, it actually kind of is the most difficult part because if you have a technical problem you could always ask one of your classmates, your teacher, or just look it up on the internet. But if you overreact or fight with your teammates and start having a problem you kind of  have to deal with it on your own because its a more mental problem.

Hiki No Behind the Scenes

So far in GT we recently just started a new project, either a New story or a profile story. Our team Talia Meleana Ashley and I choose to do a Profile story on Mrs. Sanderl. A profile is usually a story on someone specific about them self usually their job/passion. So far we filmed all the b-roll but were really behind in transcribing them all. Were still not done with the main interview on Mrs. Sanderl, were about 1/3 done transcribing it and not even close to done editing it. We decided to interview Gabriela and Michael two students in our Art class.

When the camera is not rolling were usually just preparing for when the camera is rolling or sometimes trying to take pics or just playing around. Our team has already had lots of fun doing our project just interviewing and filling out pitch sheets. It turns out interviewing 6th graders is a big challenge but really funny. Some things that our team can do to make our project better is using our time a little more better and making sure were prepared for filming and stuff. Overall the mistakes and screw ups that we made we all still had fun and got some really good work done.

The Experiment

I think the reason why Mr. Sanderl had us do the Photoshop experiment to see what we know so far and how we would so without his help and on our own when most people never actually used Photoshop in their life.  Another reason why I think we did this experiment was to get to know the app and play around with all the tools and brushes and paint electronically. Since I was in GT last year and most of the other 7th graders in our class was too we already kind of had an idea about Photoshop and how to use some of it but we ended up still learning new things about the app. There was so many new things for us to learn in the experiment.

Back to School

My favorite moment so far in 7th grade at Kapa'a Middle School is Art Class with Mrs. Sanderl. This is my favorite moment because its our teacher makes it really fun and we have more freedom I guess I can say in that class. Another one of my favorite moments here at school is playing and eating with my friends in the home ec room. These are my favorite moments because Art doesn't feel like school it seems like one of the things I would do for fun during summer. Hanging out with my friends are also fun because that's when My friend Sydney and I get to play spy and say hello to the new six graders HAHAHA.

One of my biggest challenges here in school is passing English with a A or B because we have these kind of hard vocab tests where we have to write, spell, and put the definition of the word. The last time I took my vocab test I got a C so I checked my work and found out my teacher corrected some of it wrong so she changed it to a B. Also during English I almost got a zero on my test because my English teacher miss placed my work into a her 6th period 8th grade class. I will try hard to pass by getting my work in on time and making sure my work will be placed correctly.

Some things I will do to be successful this year is try my hardest and complete all my work with the highest quality that I can do. I will also be nice to my teachers and try show no attitude. I know I will have a successful year if I do these things and more. Everyone have a great year :)